Opening bitmaps and saving JPEGs

[alkatran]

I have a large amount of bitmap pictures, each using up 1 MB a piece, and I want to convert them to JPEG.

Is there a program I can use to do this quickly (as in I don't need to open, convert, or save each individually) or do I need to write a program to do it for me?

So it all boils down to: Can I load a bitmap into memory and save it as a JPEG in vb?



Oh, forgot to mention, the jpeg cuts the filesize to 100k and the quality loss isn't noticeable... I mean... this chops a good 50 megs off the program size

[big_k105]

well you can rename the image so it will have the jpg extention but it wont be an actual jpg it will still be a bmp atleast that is what i think. i dont think it can actually convert the image to jpg just the name.

[Jmacp]

Google for bmp2jpeg.dll , it gives yu quite a good quality of conversion.

[Jmacp]

Here it is, had it lying around somewhere.

BmpToJpeg fileName & ".bmp", fileName & ".jpg", 100

[alkatran]

Thanks, that should work great.

Do I need to declare the function somehow?

I figure I'll probably get an error... but we'll see